Compare and Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" by Rosenberg and "dulce et Decorum est"
In the poems "Dead Man's Dump" by Isaac Rosenberg and "Dulce et Decorum
est" by Wilfred Owen the main concern of these poets is to relay the theme of
death. They want to let the reader feel the action, to see it with there own
eyes. Both stories portray realistic imagery in many ways. The conflict that
the dying soldier goes through in Rosenberg's poem and the struggle that the
soldier has lunging for his mask in Owen's poem shows death as imagery
In "Dead Man's Dump," you see the wheels of a truck crushing bones
already perished. "The wheels lurched over the sprawling dead," they are
driving over a ...

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him. The troops hear him and
begin to come barreling around the bend only to hear the dying soldier murmur
his last screams. In "Dulce," the regiment are tired and marching like "old
hags" because they are fatigued. As the enemy discovers them they attack by
dropping a gas bomb on the men. As they scatter for their masks one man doesn't
quite make it. He goes through an agonizing process of dying. Like the
soldier in Rosenberg's poem his cries out for his troops, his friends, to help
him. To no avail does he get any help and the whole squad is forced watching
his excruciating process of death.
In both of these poems death comes, but in two different forms. In
"Dulce" death is the gas that is thrown upon them. In "Dead Man's Dump" death
are the wheels of the truck that go crushing everything in its path. The main
part of the poem that shows this is when the soldier is cries out to the living
to come and save him. They dash off in search of the soldier only to make ...

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